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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-1769

NOTE: The text on this page is written by CVE MITRE and reflects neither the opinions of Secunia or the results of our research. All data on this page is written and maintained by CVE MITRE.

Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2008-1769

Description:
VLC before 0.8.6f allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted Cinepak file that triggers an out-of-bounds array access and memory corruption.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA29800

MISC
  http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/vlc.git/?a=commit;h=cf489d7bff3c1b36b2d5501ecf21129c78104d98
  http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214627#c3

GENTOO
  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-25.xml

CONFIRM
  http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc/NEWS
  http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0803.php
  http://wiki.videolan.org/Changelog/0.8.6f

BID
  28904


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